Introduction: performance, law, and the race so different -- That may be Japanese law, but not in my country : Madame Butterfly and the problem of law -- Justice for my son : staging reparative justice in Ping Chong's chinoiserie -- Pledge of allegiance: performing patriotism in the Japanese American concentration camps -- The nail that stands out: the political performativity of the Moriyuki Shimada scrapbook -- Illegal immigrant acts : dengue fever and the racialization of Cambodian America -- Conclusion : virtually legal